Language Syntax

Programming... Jane is one language one syntax for everything.

How bad is programming? "Standards don't we love them, there are so
many of them."

The very first thing I want to know about a new language when I start using
it, is how do I insert a comment. We have many languages, each developer of a
language somehow decides that they will not use anyone else's convention, what a
crock. It is so bad that every major language has a different convention
for every use of a language, even though the purpose is identical. Some of the
conventions used in a language are not from choice but from lack of programming
skill, which makes it doubly bad.

I want Jane to use the the best of the best out of the 50 or 60 common
languages and pick a convention most commonly accepted, then use that
convention universally across all domains.

I program in probably 40 of the most common languages. I reference maybe 200
other less common languages. Even in a single language, the variations within it
create yet more permutation in syntax. Which relates directly to time and money
in development.

for example: check the syntax of JavaScript, C++, Objective-C, PHP,
VHDL, DOS, SQL, FORTRAN, COBOL. These languages all do the same thing, and we
might have to use all of them in a single project. And to make things worse, the
hardware, vendor, and versions introduce yet even more permutations in syntax
and complexity to the project.

We are not programmers, we are assumption guessing wizards, to chase a simple
task of "add a comment". Heaven forbid we need to perform a math equation.

So Jane is to have one language syntax, the same: for all purposes, on all
hardware, without versions, and only one vendor. Anything short of this is a
joke. Yet we know... politics, corruption, greed, and egos, it will fail. All I
can do is design such a system for the future. The system must put the rights of
the individual ahead of all others.